News tagged with anti matter

Galaxy sized twist in time pulls violating particles back into line

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Warwick physicist has produced a galaxy sized solution which explains one of the outstanding puzzles of particle physics, while leaving the door open to the related conundrum ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (39) | comments 84 | with audio podcast

'Anti-atomic fingerprint': Physicists manipulate anti-hydrogen atoms for the first time (Update)

The ALPHA collaboration at CERN in Geneva has scored another coup on the antimatter front by performing the first-ever spectroscopic measurements of the internal state of the antihydrogen atom. Their results ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (30) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Study finds there may be multiple 'God particles'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research in the US suggests there may be five versions of the theorized Higgs boson.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (40) | comments 110 | with audio podcast report

A step closer to solving one of the biggest mysteries in fundamental physics?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Where did all the matter in the universe come from? This is one of the biggest mysteries in fundamental physics and exciting results released on 15 June 2011 from the international T2K neutrino ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Runaway anti-matter production makes for a spectacular stellar explosion

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Notre Dame astronomer Peter Garnavich and a team of collaborators have discovered a distant star that exploded when its center became so hot that matter and anti-matter particle ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 04, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Hubble: a time machine that revolutionized astronomy

The Hubble space telescope, the object of NASA's fifth and last servicing mission next week, is a veritable time machine that has revolutionized humankind's vision and comprehension of the universe.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 2

Neutrinos change flavors while crossing Japan

By shooting a beam of neutrinos through a small slice of the Earth under Japan, physicists say they've caught the particles changing their stripes in new ways. These observations may one day help explain why the universe ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Crab nebula: The crab in action & the case of the dog that did not bark

A new movie from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows a sequence of Chandra images of the Crab Nebula, taken over an interval of seven months. Dramatic variations are seen, including the expansion of a ring ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 16, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 7

Queen Mary scientists shed light on a mysterious particle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Queen Mary, University of London have begun looking deep into the Earth to study some of nature's weirdest particles; neutrinos.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 3